Here is a fact that reliably derails conversations: if you make a berry smoothie with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and a banana, the only true berry in it is the banana.…
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The Voyager probes launched in 1977 to study the outer solar system, and they did that job extraordinarily well, returning the first detailed images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and…
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The QWERTY layout is one of the most successful pieces of interface design in history, in the narrow sense that essentially everyone uses it and nobody can dislodge it.…
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There is a museum on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm that was built around a single object, because the object was too large to get in through any…
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the freestanding bell tower of Pisa Cathedral, standing in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Tuscany. It draws millions of visitors a year, almost all…
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Ancient Egypt gets filed in most people's heads as a single block of time. Pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphs, gold masks, Cleopatra. All of it feels like it belongs together, roughly…